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Published On 29 Dec 202429 Dec 2024

On Monday, Donald Trump will complete a stunning comeback as he is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States. Following his loss in the 2020 election, many believed Trump’s political future was over. Critics also questioned whether scandal would overshadow his legacy. After all, his false allegations of election fraud…

California has been placed in a state of emergency and five people have been reported dead as wildfires that began on Tuesday ripped across metropolitan Los Angeles, triggering evacuations and power outages. The most populous state in the United States, California has frequently been swept by wildfires, with its fire season increasingly considered year-round. Here…

The wind whips up embers as the Palisades fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, a constitutionally enshrined right granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in the United States. District Court Judge John Coughenour issued the temporary restraining order on Thursday in Seattle, Washington, preventing the government from implementing what he called a “blatantly unconstitutional” measure. Recommended…

In April 2024, students across the United States were mobilising to demand an end to their universities’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza, I wrote an article explaining why I saw the emergence of these protests, and especially those at Columbia University’s New York City campus, as a turning point in the global movement for…